Semantics, Discourse Analysis, etc

Metaphor from the Ground Up introduces Conceptual Filtering Theory, a theory of mental processing that describes figurative language communication ...

This volume examines crucial moments in the rhetoric of the Cold War, beginning with an exploration of American neutrality and the debate over ente...

Though the progress of technology continually pushes life toward virtual existence, the last decade has witnessed a renewed focus on materiality. D...

This open access book is the first comprehensive guide to identifying antisemitism online today, in both its explicit and implicit (or coded) forms...

This open access book is the first comprehensive guide to identifying antisemitism online today, in both its explicit and implicit (or coded) forms...

Addressing issues related to the physical, cultural, ideological and psychological relocation of English, this volume provides a critical examinati...

Due miliardi e mezzo di utenti internet, oltre un miliardo di account Facebook, 550 milioni di profili Twitter. Che parlano, discutono, si confront...

This book provides a ground-breaking, interaction-based framework of rituals, drawing on multiple research disciplines. It examines ritual as a rel...

In challenging the widely held belief in the ubiquity of the personification of the political state, this book strives to de-politicize research an...

Study abroad is now both an international industry and an experience that can have a deep impact on students' attitudes and approaches to second la...

These essays extend an ongoing conversation on dialogic qualities of poetry by positing various foundations, practices, and purposes of poetic dial...

A study of how the climate crisis is changing human communication from a celebrated rhetorician.   Why is it difficult to talk about climate change...

A Guide to Creating Student-Staffed Writing Centers, Grades 612, Revised Edition is a how-to and, ultimately, a why-to book for middle school and h...

This book proposes a novel analysis of Nominal Construction from the syntax-semantics interface. It is based on the newly developed framework of Ra...

This is the first book to examine the discourse of reality television. Chapters provide rigorous case studies of the discourse practices that chara...

This is the first book to examine the discourse of reality television. Chapters provide rigorous case studies of the discourse practices that chara...

Focusing on overt and covert violence and bringing attention to the many ways violence inflects and infects the teaching, administration, and schol...

Water, Rhetoric, and Social Justice: A Critical Confluence examines how individuals and communities have responded on a global scale to present day...

World Englishes and English in postcolonial contexts have been curiously neglected in an otherwise abundant research literature on text types and g...

This book presents a comprehensive description of collocation, covering both the theoretical and practical background and the implications and appl...

This book presents a comprehensive description of collocation, covering both the theoretical and practical background and the implications and appl...

The Political Language of Food addresses why the language used in the production, marketing, selling, and consumption of food is inherently politic...

This open-access edited volume brings together the latest research on Korean politeness (K-Politeness) from multidisciplinary and multimodal perspe...

At the heart of the dramatic arts lies a single phenomenon: human social interaction. The crux of the practitioners work involves knowing how inter...